We’ve found a frightening intersection between the astonishing statements by Democratic candidates and campaign operatives revealed in James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas undercover videos and the conclusions of Prof. Angelo Codevilla’s recent essay “Our Revolution’s Logic” that we told you about in our article “Revolutionary Logic.”

What Prof. Codevilla found after reviewing the history of the logic of revolutions is this insight about today’s radical Progressive Left:

The logic that drives each turn of our revolutionary spiral is Progressive Americans’ inherently insatiable desire to exercise their superiority over those they deem inferior. With Newtonian necessity, each such exercise causes a corresponding and opposite reaction. The logic’s force comes not from the substance of the Progressives’ demands. If that were the case, acquiescing to or compromising with them could cut it short. Rather, it comes from that which moves, changes, and multiplies their demands without end. That is the Progressives’ affirmation of superior worth, to be pursued by exercising dominance: superior identity affirmed via the inferior’s humiliation. It is an inherently endless pursuit.

The logic is rooted in disdain, but not so much of any of the supposed inferiors’ features or habits. If it were, the deplored could change their status by improving. But the Progressives deplore the “deplorables” not to improve them, but to feel good about themselves. Hating people for what they are and because it feels good to hate them, is hate in its unalloyed form.

People of good will might be inclined to object to that characterization of Democrats: Surely “public service” or a desire to help the less fortunate or other eleemosynary ideals motivate most people seeking public office they would argue.

James O’Keefe’s videos debunk that notion quite conclusively, and in the Far-Left Democrats’ own words.

Consider the comments of Omar Smith, a campaign aide and former college roommate of Andrew Gillum, the Far-Left Democratic candidate for Governor of Florida.

Florida, said Mr. Smith, is a “cracker state,” a “f*cked-up assed state.” Smith also says that “the rules in Florida are f*cked up” and that the Florida legislature must become racially black for Gillum’s agenda to advance. Only by lying and appealing to “white guilt” can Mr. Gillum win, said Mr. Smith.

If Florida is so bad and full of “crackers” why would Mr. Gillum want to be Governor one might ask.

Prof. Codevilla supplies an answer from the logic of revolutions: “Progressives deplore the “deplorables” not to improve them, but to feel good about themselves. Hating people for what they are and because it feels good to hate them, is hate in its unalloyed form.”

"So, let’s go back to Mr. Gillum’s platform, right?" Smith told Project Veritas. "Raise the corporate tax in Florida from 7 to 11 percent. That will never happen. Raise teacher’s pay to $50,000, that will never happen. Give me another position. Medicare for all, that will never happen."

If making those things happen is not why Mr. Gillum is running, what is his campaign about?

It is about power, as Mr. Smith pointed out in the undercover video, “Remember our saying, modern-day fairy tales start with ‘once I am elected,’” meaning telling any lie about Mayor Gillum’s planned policies to obtain power is not just acceptable, it is imperative.

And as Project Veritas has proven through its videos, the Democrats’ lying and contempt for voters is not limited to Andrew Gillum’s campaign for Governor of Florida.

In a Project Veritas video, Arizona’s Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Kyrsten Sinema says that Arizonans will “actually shoot you” if you support gun bans in an Arizona campaign.

Project Veritas Journalist: “Are the people of Tennessee that ignorant?”

Bredesen campaign staffer Will Stewart: “Yeah.”

There’s more, but you get the picture. What the Project Veritas videos make clear is that Democrats aren’t running because they are committed to “public service’ or to improving life for the American people; they’re running to make you do things you may not want to do, and they want to use all the power the government has to bend you to their will.